Global Sourcing Manager – Logistics Purchasing & AI/ML Analytics

General Motors; Warren, Northern (MI, KY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors in Warren, Michigan, is seeking a Global Sourcing Manager to lead strategic sourcing for logistics services, manage supplier performance, and drive cost optimization through AI/ML analytics. The role focuses on analyzing freight data, negotiating with carriers, and aligning procurement with business goals.

The position requires strong commercial judgment, data capabilities, and the ability to translate complex data into actionable supplier strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, procurement, business, computer science, AI/ML, or related field.
• 2+ years in purchasing, strategic sourcing, logistics, or related discipline.
• Experience with data analytics, automation, or AI/ML in business problems.
• Strong negotiation, project management, and financial interpretation skills.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for logistics categories and providers.
• Lead RFQs, market analyses, negotiations, and contract implementation.
• Analyze transportation requirements, capacity, and total landed cost.
• Build relationships with carriers and logistics suppliers; monitor contracts and KPIs.
• Build AI/ML-enabled freight analytics models and dashboards.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Data analytics

Negotiation

Project management

AI/ML knowledge

Analytical thinking

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's preferred

Tools

SAP

SQL

Python

ERP systems

Job description

## Global Sourcing Manager – Logistics Purchasing & AI/ML AnalyticsApply: Hybrid: Warren, Michigan, United States of America: Full time: Posted Today: JR-202619400**Job Description****Work Arrangement** This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren, MI three times per week, at minimum.**The Role**The Global Sourcing Manager leads strategic sourcing, supplier management, and cost-optimization activities for logistics services. The role is ideal for a sourcing, procurement, data, or AI/ML professional who can translate complex freight and supplier data into recommendations that improve cost, service, resilience, visibility, and operational performance. The successful candidate brings commercial judgment and analytical capability, plus the curiosity and learning agility to become a purchasing logistician through structured development, supplier engagement, operational exposure, and partnership with experienced logistics professionals.**What You’ll Do**## ***Strategic Logistics Sourcing**** Develop and execute sourcing strategies for assigned logistics categories, lanes, regions, and service providers.* Lead or support RFQs, bid events, market analyses, negotiations, award recommendations, and contract implementation.* Analyze transportation requirements, network structures, capacity, service levels, accessorials, fuel mechanisms, risk, and total landed cost.* Balance cost, quality, service, capacity, flexibility, resiliency, sustainability, and business continuity in category strategies.* Maintain the sourcing pipeline, benchmarking data, strategy presentations, budget inputs, and on-time metrics; follow GM purchasing, accounting, and audit requirements.## ***Supplier, Contract & Business Management**** Build productive relationships with carriers, rail and ocean providers, trucking and haulaway providers, freight forwarders, yard operators, technology partners, and other logistics suppliers.* Monitor performance against contracts, SLAs, cost targets, operational requirements, and compliance standards; lead KPI reviews and corrective actions.* Support contracts, renewals, amendments, claims, escalations, commercial issue resolution, and disruption mitigation with legal, finance, operations, and business partners.* Evaluate supplier financial health, capacity, safety, quality, cybersecurity, sustainability, and operational risk.## ***AI/ML-Enabled Freight Analytics**** Build repeatable data models, dashboards, and tools that improve freight-cost, sourcing, and supplier-performance management.* Consolidate and normalize data across modes, lanes, locations, rates, invoices, accessorials, fuel, capacity, service events, and contracts.* Apply AI/ML for forecasting, optimization, anomaly detection, data quality, pattern recognition, and decision support to surface sourcing opportunities and reduce manual work.* Document data sources, business rules, assumptions, methods, and reusable outputs; validate findings with logistics experts before business use.* Apply appropriate governance, access controls, explainability, model-risk practices, and human review to AI-enabled purchasing decisions.## ***Logistics Learning & Leadership**** Build working knowledge of rail, ocean, truck, haulaway, yard management, freight forwarding, air, and container services—and how they are planned, purchased, measured, and executed.* Connect sourcing decisions to pickup and delivery performance, dwell, transit time, capacity, damage, claims, inventory flow, and customer service.* Influence without relying solely on formal authority; establish priorities, simplify work, coach others, and promote ethical, customer-focused, fact-based decision-making**Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)*** Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, procurement, business, finance, computer science, data science, engineering, AI/ML, or a related field; equivalent professional experience may be considered.* 2+ years of relevant experience in purchasing, strategic sourcing, supply chain, logistics, program/product management, account management, engineering/product development, data/analytics, or a related discipline (any internship or co-op experience will not be considered)* Experience managing complex data, developing analytical solutions, or applying automation, AI/ML, or other technology to business problems.* Strong analytical, commercial, financial, negotiation, project-management, and problem-solving skills; ability to interpret contracts, pricing structures, cost drivers, supplier proposals, and performance data.* Data judgment: uses automated tools appropriately, analyzes information objectively, and draws meaningful conclusions.* Informative communication and relationship management; communicates clearly with executives, suppliers, operations leaders, technical teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.* Results focus and workload management; takes initiative, prioritizes critical work, manages multiple workstreams, and delivers on time.* Willingness to learn logistics through structured training, site visits, supplier meetings, operational reviews, and collaboration with subject-matter experts.* SAP experience or the ability to learn purchasing systems* Willingness to travel approximately 5–10% domestically and internationally.**What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)*** Experience sourcing transportation, freight forwarding, warehousing, containers, manufacturing services, or other supply chain categories.* Experience with logistics management, transportation management, supply chain planning, ERP/procurement systems, business intelligence tools, SQL, Python, cloud data platforms, or machine-learning frameworks.* Knowledge of transportation cost structures, rate and tariff models, fuel surcharges, accessorials, lane economics, service-level agreements, capacity and materials management, or contract law as applied to purchasing.* Experience developing AI/ML use cases for forecasting, optimization, anomaly detection, classification, natural-language analysis, or decision support.* Automotive, manufacturing, commodity, cost-analysis, or engineering-document experience; ability to interpret market trends and regulatory considerations.* Master’s degree in supply chain, business administration, data science, computer science, AI/ML, engineering, or a related field.* Experience leading cross-functional transformation, digital procurement, or enterprise-scale analytics initiatives.GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role.This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.